Data Protection

We have posted this privacy policy to inform you about our data protection regulations and privacy practices. This, especially, pertains to our undertaking in protecting data and to which data we generally collect.

General Information about Data Protection

The EU— General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (BDSG 2018) (Federal Data Protection Act), and, in succession, the Telekommunikationsgesetz (German Telecommunications Act) and the Telemediengesetz (German Telemedia Act) protect personal data. These laws and regulations pertain to the data of natural persons; legal personal data are not covered by this protection.

Personal data is information which can be traced to your identity (e.g. Name, Telephone Number, or E-mail address). Information which does not pertain to personal identity (e.g. number of users on a page) is not categorized as such.

Purpose of the Webpages

The purpose of the websites is the dissemination of information about our company, products, and services. In a legal sense, they do not constitute an offer. The websites were created with best knowledge; however, we do not guarantee for the disseminated information’s accuracy, freedom of errors, and its thoroughness. The Silca Service- und Vertriebsgesellschaft für Dämmstoffe mbH retains the right to amend or delete its website or information at any time.

Collection and Processing of Personal Data

In conjunction with your query, data will be saved on our servers for security purposes that may enable identification:

IP Address

Date

Time

Viewed Sites

Current Accessed Document

HTTP Status Code

Additional personal data will only be collected, if you voluntarily provide data e.g. query or registration.

Annotation to Data Protection

Generally, you are able to open all internet pages of the Silca Service- und Vertriebsgesellschaft für Dämmstoffe mbH without having to provide personal information. On an individual basis you will be notified if your name, address or other personal data needs to be provided. Your personal user data is used to make your experience with the Silca Service- und Vertriebsgesellschaft für Dämmstoffe mbH as convenient as possible and to improve upon our services.

Should you decide to render personal data to the Silca Service- und Vertriebsgesellschaft für Dämmstoffe mbH using the internet for the purpose of communication, the sending of information, or the execution of orders, you data will be treated very carefully according to the stringent regulations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

By the accessing of internet websites, the Silca Service- und Vertriebsgesellschaft für Dämmstoffe mbH receives user data. These are saved for security purposes and may enable identification (e.g. IP-Address, Date, Time und Viewed Sites). These data will be analyzed by the Silca Service- und Vertriebsgesellschaft für Dämmstoffe mbH to familiarize ourselves with user behavior and to produce statistics. No personal analysis takes place. The statistical analysis of anonymous data remains reserved.

Transfer of Personal information to Third Parties

Within the course of a contract data processing, should data be transferred to a third party, they are bound to the GDPR, other legal requirements and to the contract of the privacy policy of the Silca Service- und Vertriebsgesellschaft für Dämmstoffe mbH. Insofar as the Silca Service- und Vertriebsgesellschaft für Dämmstoffe mbH is legally obligated or bound to a court judgement, the company will transmit your data in the required amount to that authority with that authorization.

For other purposes, the Silca Service- und Vertriebsgesellschaft für Dämmstoffe mbH will not transfer your data to third parties without your consent.

Security

The Silca Service- und Vertriebsgesellschaft für Dämmstoffe mbH saves your data on specially protected servers. Access to these servers is limited to authorized persons of the Silca Service- und Vertriebsgesellschaft für Dämmstoffe mbH. These persons deal with the technical, commercial and editorial support service of the server.

Use of Cookies

During a online session, text information will be collected in cookies and is stored in a special ASCII-Format file (cookie.txt) on the hard drive of the user. The saved location of the user’s cookie is regulated by the user’s browser. Cookies are information that is sent back to the server during your next visit. They can only be read by the server that stored it.

The Silca Service- und Vertriebsgesellschaft für Dämmstoffe mbH only uses cookies when they are absolutely necessary for user functions or when they ease the website navigation. The information will not be provided to third parties, being that cookies are only used for the above mentioned reason.

Most browsers are configured to automatically accept cookies. However, this function can be deactivated. You can configure your browser to send you messages as soon as cookies are being sent.

Links to External Websites

As the case may be, the websites of the Silca Service- und Vertriebsgesellschaft für Dämmstoffe mbH contains links to other websites. The Silca Service- und Vertriebsgesellschaft für Dämmstoffe mbH has no influence over the editorial content of external websites and the conformity of data protection regulations.

For the precision, the legal permissibility, and moral innocuousness of external content, especially for damages, which incurred from the usage or non-usage of the offered information, the supplier of the external content is liable and not the referring party to the external links.

Guarantee and Liability

The Silica Service- und Vertriebsgesellschaft für Dämmstoffe mbH bears no liability for possible direct or indirect damages and subsequent damages, which may have occurred as a result of usage of information and material from the websites of the Silca Service- und Vertriebsgesellschaft für Dämmstoffe mbH or through the accessing links of external websites. The Silca Service- und Vertriebsgesellschaft für Dämmstoffe mbH does not guarantee that information, software and other material are free of viruses or other damaging components, which are accessible through one of the webpages.

Data Security in the Internet

Please take note that the world wide web is a public accessible data network. Every time voluntary personal information is provided, this occurs at your own risk. Your data can get lost during the transport or may land in the hands of unauthorized users.

Right to Information, Rectification, Objection and Complaint

As a matter of course, you have the right to receive personal information that we have saved (Art. 15 GDPR). Additionally, you have the right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR) of incorrect data, suspension, the right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR), the right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR), and the right to object against the process data (Art. 21 GDPR). Furthermore, you have the right of appeal at the competent Datenschutz-Aufsichtsbehörde (independent data protection supervisory authority).

Revocation

The consent of the process of personal data can be revoked at any time taking effect in the future. This can be complete by correspondence at the address listed below or by sending us an e-mail to info(at)silca-online.de.

Each business dealing, especially transpiring in the internet, alludes to questions of data protection and security, and we take this very seriously. We are externally monitored and consulted on a regular basis about data security in order to negate notions of organizational blindness or economic challenges.

Should you have any questions about data protection, we are there to answer these questions. Feel free to contact our independent data protection officer.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics uses so called "cookies". These are text data that are saved on your computer and enable an analysis of your usage of the website. The information on your usage of this website generated by the cookie is generally transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

Google Analytics cookies are saved on the basis of Art. 6, Para. 1, Letter of the General Data Protection Regulation. The operator of the website has a legitimate interest in the analysis of user behavior, in order to optimize both his/her web offer as well as his/her advertisements.

IP Anonymization

We have activated the IP anonymization function on this website. This means that your IP address is abbreviated by Google within Member States of the European Union or other members of the European Economic Area before being transmitted to the USA. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and abbreviated there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website in order to evaluate your usage of the website, compile reports on the website activities and provide additional services related to website usage and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted from your browser by means of Google Analytics is not consolidated with other data from Google.

Browser Plugin

You may prevent the storage of cookies by changing the settings of your browser software accordingly; however, we wish to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website in their entirety. Furthermore, you may prevent the recording of data that are generated by the cookie and are related to your usage of the website (including your IP address) by Google and the processing of these data by Google by downloading and installing the browser link available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

Objection to data recording

You may prevent the recording of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie is inserted, which prevents the recording of your data during future visits to this website: deactivate Google Analytics.

We have concluded a contract with Google regarding contract data processing and implement the strict provisions of the German data protection authorities in their entirety when using Google Analytics.

Demographic features of Google Analytics

This website uses the function "demographic features" of Google Analytics. It enables the compilation of reports which include information on the age, gender and interests of the visitors to the website. These data originate from interest-related advertising from Google as well as visitor data from third-party providers. These data cannot be attributed to a certain person. You may deactivate this function at any time in the display settings in your Google account or generally prohibit the recording of your data by Google Analytics as described in the item "objection to data recording".